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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCable TV - 1995 - 11_09Members Present: Donald Wing Mark Pacheco Bill Huber Sherry Bennett Douglas Dreggors Ty Westfall Eric Willard (arrived 7:37) Members Absent: none Staff Present: Michael Stanger Donna Holden Others Present: Randee Wilson, First Southwest JoAnn Holtzclaw, TCI Cablevision 07.110 • ••IIZ•i3f With a quorum of the committee present, the Regular Meeting of the Allen Cable Television Advisory Committee was called to order by Donald Wing at 7:07 p.m. on Thursday, November 9, 1995, in the Meeting Room of the Allen Public Library, Two Allen Civic Plaza, Allen, Texas. The following items were discussed: Motion made by Mr. Wing and seconded by Mr. Huber that the October 25, 1995 minutes be approved as written with one small change to be made before signing. Page 2, Next Meeting, change time from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Motion was made by Mr. Wing and seconded by Mr. Huber that the November 1, 1995 minutes be approved as written with no changes. MINUTES ALLEN CABLE TELEVISION ADVISORY COMMITTEE REGULAR MEETING November 9, 1995 Members Present: Donald Wing Mark Pacheco Bill Huber Sherry Bennett Douglas Dreggors Ty Westfall Eric Willard (arrived 7:37) Members Absent: none Staff Present: Michael Stanger Donna Holden Others Present: Randee Wilson, First Southwest JoAnn Holtzclaw, TCI Cablevision 07.110 • ••IIZ•i3f With a quorum of the committee present, the Regular Meeting of the Allen Cable Television Advisory Committee was called to order by Donald Wing at 7:07 p.m. on Thursday, November 9, 1995, in the Meeting Room of the Allen Public Library, Two Allen Civic Plaza, Allen, Texas. The following items were discussed: Motion made by Mr. Wing and seconded by Mr. Huber that the October 25, 1995 minutes be approved as written with one small change to be made before signing. Page 2, Next Meeting, change time from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Motion was made by Mr. Wing and seconded by Mr. Huber that the November 1, 1995 minutes be approved as written with no changes. Allen CTAC Meeting i November 9, 1995 Page 2 COMMITTEE BY-LAWS Don Wing asked all members if they had any questions or changes to the By -Laws and all members answered no. Mr. Wing motioned and Mr. Pacheco seconded that the By -Laws be approved as written and all other members agreed. Motion passed and By -Laws approved. Ll !10 kQK[L1LtX%Lr •9 RLYA Lei mi.. I o G• 111 NO NO This item was tabled at the previous meeting until all committee members could be present. With all members present, Mark Pacheco motioned Don Wing be chairperson. Bill Huber seconded and all other members agreed. For the vice -chairperson, Douglas Dreggors volunteered. All members were in favor and Mr. Dreggors was approved as vice -chairperson. For secretary, Mark Pacheco volunteered. All members were in favor and Mr. Pacheco was approved as secretary CABLE TELEVISION RATE SETTING ORDINANCE AND PROCEDURES Randee Wilson with First Southwest was introduced by Michael Stanger. She passed out a summary sheet (attached) and did a brief overview of the summary sheet. Committee members reviewed the summary and asked the following questions. Mr. Wing asked what involvement/control the City could have over premium channel issues. Ms. Wilson answered that neither cities nor the FCC can control premium channels. Ms. Wilson gave an update on the Form 1200, which is still pending with the FCC. It was suggested by Ms. Wilson that the best resource for information would be the Cable Rate Regulation Handbook, by Thompson Publishing. Michael Stanger passed out informationjust received by Miller, Canfield, Paddock Stone, regarding Proposed TCl/FCC Rate Resolution and gave a brief summary. Ms. Wilson left the meeting at 7.45. WORK PLAN 1995 - 96 Michael Stanger started by mentioning what the committee asked for at their last meeting. There were five areas of concern. 1. Government access channel. 2. Installation to the new areas of town. 3 Rebuild - City wide. 4 What TCI has in the way of current technology 5 How TCI is doing with respect to customer service measurements, including the complaint process. N I Allen CTAC Meeting November 9, 1995 Page 3 Mr. Wing expressed an interest focusing first on Sections 11, 12 & 15 of the Franchise Agreement. Mr. Pacheco asked about Section 17 - Emergency Status. Ms. Holtzclaw said the city does not access this feature yet, and that it is usually personnel from the police or fire departments who operate the emergency system. In order to understand the rebuild plan and what TCI is offering its customers, Ms. Holtzclaw asked if the committee would consider having the next meeting, or just a walk-through, at the TCI facility on Prestige Circle. All members agreed this would be helpful and approved the suggestion. Mr. Stanger asked Ms. Holtzclaw about the complaint that was forwarded to her from Jon McCarty Ms. Holtzclaw said she had another staff person coming from TCI to explain the outcome of that complaint, but was not able to do so. Ms. Holtzclaw said she would have the information at the next meeting. Bill Huber told Ms. Holtzclaw that the citizens will want to know why the rebuild will take two years and felt that channel capacity is the issue everyone is concerned with. About the time frame, Ms. Holtzclaw first explained that the delay is partly due to the City holding off on negotiations due to pending legislation; and secondly, she said that there were several other municipalities that put in a request before the City of Allen and the cable installing companies were all busy with previous requests from the other municipalities. Mr. Huber added that the City of Allen is not interested in other municipalities service requests, but would like TCI to direct their attention to serving the City of Allen. Ms. Holtzclaw repeated that every cable installing company is booked full with the other municipality requests and there was nothing TCI could do about the time frame at this point. Ty Westfall asked about system capacity Ms. Holtzclaw said the system is over its capacity; that is, doing even better than it was designed for. The work plan was separated into learning subjects and divided among the members as follows: Community Peer Review Installation/Equipment - School Liaison - Local Public Access - Channel Offerings - Rate Issues - Community Customer Information - Bill Huber, along with whole committee. Douglas Dreggors Eric Willard Don Wing Mark Pacheco Ty Westfall, along with whole committee. Sherry Bennett Mr. Huber suggested that each person share knowledge of their topics at the January meeting. Mr. Huber verified that August 24 was the beginning date for the two year build out. Ms. Holtzclaw said that was correct. Ms. Holtzclaw left the meeting approximately 8:30. L Allen CTAC Meeting November 9, 1995 Page 4 h Eric Willard mentioned there was a group out of Colorado that puts out information on the Internet. He will get more information about this and bring it to the next meeting. It was suggested that Citizens Input be added as a permanent item to the agenda. Mr. Westfall suggested that this item be added to the 2nd meeting in January so the committee can gain better knowledge for citizen questions. All members agreed. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMITTEE Mr. Huber was not satisfied with Ms. Holtzclaw's answer about all the cable installing companies are busy and cannot take care of Allen right now. Suggested checking with some cable installing companies about what kind of time frame they would have to backbone the entire Allen community Mr. Stanger volunteered to check with FOT and see what they could do. ADJOURNED Mr. Huber moved to adjourn the meeting and Mr. Wing seconded. This meeting was officially adjourned at 8:45 p.m. These minutes read and approved this 14th day of December, 1995. Chairperson Secretary